may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Sunday, October 16, 2011

"FIVE WORDS SING ARIA":


Water did not ask permission of mountain
and we did not ask water
We Empire dams,large scale construction concrete
(so she could not escape). Feline,she leaps 
when her ally rain feeds her/enough liquidity
to break the banks that bind,and find new movements.
Alone,water craves company-the voice of rivers,the gossip of fountains
even anorexic waterfalls thin drought hair soup.
She thought since she was inside us,we might release(and we do!
Still,we hold her.Still.Add chlorine,fluoride.We do not entirely trust her
She has drowned us when we were Chinese/Egyptian.
She has flooded us in hurricanes/sent Tsunami wind waves waging wars
We see her as a prisoner.Charge others for use of her."Utilities""Rates"
She came freely to us,with no price tag. Amatil (Coca-Cola)fixed that!
Deserts once oases.Palestine deferred like Paradise.Roman Centurion roads over her.
Watersheds cry in caves,drip stalactites.Water on the moon?Selene cries for astronauts
They left her with a flag and no moon base.That is why moon calls tides to rise
Every full,she fills us.Drink her in!Nothing can sing like moon
Except river...

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